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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Whirligigs by O. Henry: hat down and awaited the harmless rattle of the tiny
pellets.
The shotgun blazed with a heavy report. Mexico
Sam sighed, turned limp all over, and slowly fell from
his horse -- a dead rattlesnake.
At ten o'clock the next morning court opened, and the
case of the United States versus Rafael Ortiz was called.
The district attorney, with his arm in a sling, rose and
addressed the court.
"May it please your honour," he said, "I desire to
enter a nolle pros. in this case. Even though the defend-
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